Frameworks That Work As Hard As You Do
With the greatest orchestration performance, application delivery and configurability yet, Kubernetes is a system created to push the limits of what is possible. With our Frameworks, you will unearth potential landmines and systemically strip out risk.
There’s no substitute for clarity, consensus, and collaboration.
Your Teams Should Not Be Struggling
- We don't know the proven path
- We need to simplify operations
- We don't know how to best deploy
- We don't have time to optimize
- Our developers aren't up to speed
- We can't migrate apps quick enough
- We don't monitor end-to-end
- We take too long to fix issues
- We lack hands-on experience
- We need to up-skill our people
Architecture
Kubernetes requires coordination between Operations and Development to explicitly define and explain new conditions for application development and deployment.
This map focuses on your current environment to identify ways to optimize your Kubernetes environment. Simple changes can significantly improve performance.
1.5 Hours
Medium Difficulty
Enterprise Architect; Head of Operations
Applications
There are so many flavors of applications that it is important to identify what different applications have in common and then define what makes them unique.
This map focuses on identifying “low risk, low lift” applications to migrate to Kubernetes. This lets you tweak any issues you might discover regarding CPU consumption, storage, and other factors.
1.5 Hours
Medium Difficulty
Head of Operations; Head of Development
Applications
There are so many flavors of applications that it is important to identify what different applications have in common and then define what makes them unique.
This map focuses on identifying “low risk, low lift” applications to migrate to Kubernetes. This lets you tweak any issues you might discover regarding CPU consumption, storage, and other factors.
1.5 Hours
Medium Difficulty
Head of Operations; Head of Development
Scalability
The goal of Kubernetes is to scale three ways:
- Does your infrastructure scale reliably and securely?
- Does your Kubernetes environment autoscale?
- Do your Kubernetes applications self-heal?
This map focuses on understanding the temporal requirements of applications using your environment.
1 Hours
Easy Effort
Ent. Architect; Head of Operations; Security Manager
Storage & Backup
Data is like gold to an organization. It’s precious and needs to be protected.
This map focuses on exactly where data resides (Object, Block, or File) and the nature of your backup plan. Be sure to identify the last time you tested a restore from a backup.
2 Hours
Medium Difficulty
Ent. Architect; Head of Operations; Security Manager
Storage & Backup
Data is like gold to an organization. It’s precious and needs to be protected.
This map focuses on exactly where data resides (Object, Block, or File) and the nature of your backup plan. Be sure to identify the last time you tested a restore from a backup.
2 Hours
Medium Difficulty
Ent. Architect; Head of Operations; Security Manager
CI/CD
The goal of Kubernetes is to scale three ways:
- Does your infrastructure scale reliably and securely?
- Does your Kubernetes environment autoscale?
- Do your Kubernetes applications self-heal?
This map focuses on understanding the temporal requirements of applications using your environment. Be sure to identify manual processes to be automated
1 Hours
Easy Effort
Head of Operations; Head of Development
Disaster Recovery
There is nothing worse than facing disaster recovery. Everyone wants everything fixed and fixed now.
This framework focuses on uncovering gaps in a comprehensive disaster recovery plan. To maximize the value of this framework, list specific people (and their backups) responsible for executing each element of the plan.
2 Hours
Medium Difficulty
Enterprise Architect; Security Manager
Disaster Recovery
There is nothing worse than facing disaster recovery. Everyone wants everything fixed and fixed now.
This framework focuses on uncovering gaps in a comprehensive disaster recovery plan. To maximize the value of this framework, list specific people (and their backups) responsible for executing each element of the plan.
2 Hours
Medium Difficulty
Enterprise Architect; Security Manager
Monitoring
Ephemeral clusters and oscillating applications make monitoring your Kubernetes environment health tricky.
This framework focuses on tools for visualization, tracing, and alerting. You may need multiple frameworks if monitoring is different between Production, Development, QA, and etcd.
2 Hours
Medium Difficulty
Enterprise Architect; Head of Ops; Security Manager
Security
A new environment and new application deployment necessitates security changes in policy and processes.
This framework focuses on the 4C's of Kubernetes Security: Cloud, Clusters, Containers, and Code. Pay attention to how secrets, data clusters, authentication, and authorization are handled.
2 Hours
Medium Difficulty
Enterprise Architect; Head of Ops; Security Manager
Security
A new environment and new application deployment necessitates security changes in policy and processes.
This framework focuses on the 4C's of Kubernetes Security: Cloud, Clusters, Containers, and Code. Pay attention to how secrets, data clusters, authentication, and authorization are handled.
2 Hours
Medium Difficulty
Enterprise Architect; Head of Ops; Security Manager
Now What?
Step 1: Line Up Executive Champions
Discover real pain across your organization. Are competitors winning? Are systems crashing? Are you vulnerable to attack?
Step 2: Define Your Transformation
Articulate what you can do in the future that you cannot do today, e.g., anxiously constrained to customer pleasing.
Step 3. Block Out Time To Focus
We are always busy, but not usually productive. Block out time to collaborate on one Framework per week.